COL. R.A. BIGGS and MAJOR LOCH

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COL. R.A. BIGGS and MAJOR LOCH

Architecture at Beejapoor, an Ancient Mahometan Capital in the Bombay Presidency, London: John Murray, 1866

Volume comprising seventy-eight photographs including frontispiece and title page vignette, albumen prints, thirty-one from waxed paper negatives, sizes approx. 10½ x 7 in. to 10½ x 14½ in. or the reverse, six signed Biggs in the negatives, forty-seven of reproductions of drawings by Capt. P.D. Hart, B.E., A. Cumming, C.E., and Native Draftsmen, printed title labels, an historical and descriptive memoir by Captain Meadows Taylor M.R.I.A., F.R.G.S.I and architectural notes by James Fergusson, F.R.S., M.R.A.S., printed map, list of illustrations, contents, preface, dedication page to ...The Right Hon. Sir Henry Edward Bartle Frere, K.S.I., K.C.B., Governor of Bombay..., title page and half-title, half maroon calf, titled and with authors' credits in gilt on spine, folio.
Literature
Roosens & Salu, History of Photography: Bibliography of Books, no. 883; Worswick & Embree, The Last Empire, pp. 4-6.
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In 1855, Col. T. Biggs was appointed as a photographer by the Bombay Government, in order to document the Muslim architecture at Bijapur and Ahmedabad. He held this position until 1857, when W. H. Pigou took over. Pigou died while working on the project and was succeeded by A. C. Neill. Their work was published in two volumes in London in 1866 by John Murray, of which this was one.

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